Staff AWS Solution Architecture Consultant

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      "content": "<div>\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">Cloud Architecture &amp; Technical Strategy</span></p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Provide deep expertise in AWS MAP programs, migration frameworks, and modernization pathways including rehost, replatform, and refactor strategies</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Architect and design cloud-native solutions that optimize performance, cost, and security while ensuring alignment with clients' strategic goals and product roadmap, with strong emphasis on networking, IAM, governance, resiliency, and compliance</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Evaluate and recommend the most effective AWS cloud solutions and AI technologies for each project, ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Identify and mitigate potential architectural and technological risks in cloud deployments, ensuring the implementation of secure, resilient, and scalable solutions</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Serve as a senior technical advisor for Bedrock, GenAI, and cloud-native innovation opportunities, helping clients evaluate practical enterprise AI adoption</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">Client Engagement &amp; Solution Consulting</span></p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Lead technical discovery, assessments, and solution architecture for cloud migration and modernization opportunities across AWS and Azure environments</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Support pre-sales engagements by translating client business needs into scalable technical strategies, solution designs, and Statements of Work</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Support clients in developing cloud architecture strategies centered on AWS, aligning these solutions with clients' business objectives to drive innovation, scalability, and efficiency</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Support clients in developing migration and modernization journeys, leveraging AWS programs like MAP, the Well-Architected Framework, or Immersion Days</span></p>\n</li>\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Collaborate with client stakeholders to understand their business challenges and objectives, ensuring that solutions are tailored to address real business needs while leveraging cutting-edge AWS services</span></p>\n</li>\n\n<p style=\"line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif;\">Thought Leadership &amp; Team Development</span></p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;\">\n<li style=\"font-size: 10pt; 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